He has a point in a way. This originally started out to resolve Russia's role in the 2016 election, e.g. did they influence the vote and did they collude with Trump or his campaign staff while doing so. And YES I know Mueller's commission allowed him to track down other suspicious activity he uncovered.

To me half-million dollar factotums for a 45 minute speech and tens of millions in donations to family foundations and how they factor into uranium sales could stand a few minutes investigation, too.

Most of this stuff on Manafort is old news.

What about George Papadolous - to me, that seems much worse news than Manafort.

What about George Papadolous - to me, that seems much worse news than Manafort.

Saw you caught that earlier.

At this point may be the first direct connection between Trump and Russia. But Manafort is way worse for Trump in the long run. His chargers not only will connect the campaign to Russia (but perhaps not trump himself), but will absolutely connect Trump's businesses, and his kids, to money laundering.

Depending on which route he chooses, Trump and family will all go down on RICO charges. I could see a scenario where he resigns and pleads out agreeing to massive fines, as he did with his casino in 2015 (FinCEN fined him $10M for money laundering), but he will be giving back property if he goes that route.

At this point may be the first direct connection between Trump and Russia. But Manafort is way worse for Trump in the long run. His chargers not only will connect the campaign to Russia (but perhaps not trump himself), but will absolutely connect Trump's businesses, and his kids, to money laundering.

I guess the New York Times, WaPO, CNN are not doing their job, Papadopolous was arrested in late July. Nothing was leaked about it

Not related, but they might start singing like canaries in exchange of a lesser sentence.

Possibly. I'm thinking the deals might have already been made and baked into the indictments, e.g. lesser charges, etc.

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Originally Posted by GG

I'm seeing a lot of trump supporters having the impression that this somehow means the investigation is over. Imo this could just be the start.

I haven't seen any.

__________________A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise for to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson.

"There's actually nothing about the deal that's controversial. The only reason we're talking about it, per your admission — which I think is very honest — the RNC would like us to be talking about this now."

pretty sure Ingraham and Hannity will spend 1:59 minutes of the two hours tonight NOT on this and way too much time on HRC

AC360 will spend 1:59 minutes of his two hours ON this

something wrong about both with the media these days

You'll just have to tune in to find out. Go ahead, add to their magnificent ratings...
Btw, I figured they would have to go back years and years ago, charges totally unrelated to the original investigation, to let the public know they aren't wasting their tax money on a nothingburger. ::sarcasm alert::